Maura Scully: Module Three
- 1. Equity and Education: Creating fair learning environments for the elementary classroom, a lesson for future educators Maura Scully Fall 2018 Professor Cavender and Dr. Kern Created on: November 20, 2018
- 2. “Do You Believe in Equal Education” Ndidi Okezie | TEDxLondon
- 3. How Equity is Viewed in Today’s Political Climate https://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2017/05/31/our -schools-have-an-equity-problem-what.html
- 4. Let’s quiz ourselves to see how well we understood the article! https://play.kahoot.it/#/k/c9db5c4e-720c-4fa5-8b2d-ea1ad443b119
- 5. Factors that Contribute to Equity Each of the four branches are factors that contribute to the levels of equity that exist in the classroom. One example is the idea of support from teachers. If a student does not feel uplifted and/or believed in by the teacher, that student might be more inclined to doubt their abilities or simply refuse to put in any level of effort. However, if a teacher supports each learner and creates a safe classroom environment, students will have a greater chance for success.
- 6. See if you can sort out how to make an equitable classroom! file:///Users/maurascully/Documents/Modul e%20Sort/Module%20Sort.svg
- 7. Reflection Google Slides can help share digital resources for learning because you have the ability to embed a variety of media into the program so that a lesson can be complete and located in the same area. It minimizes the transition time in a classroom from one task to the next. Just through completing the module, I was able to learn the variety of ways I can utilize technological tools to aid student learning. There is a variety of mediums that can be employed. Because they will be at our fingertips, we will be able to incorporate more into our lessons. Additionally, the slide show can be shared with students so that they can have it in front of them while the lesson is happening, if there is access to computers, or the slides can be shared with the students so that they can take it home with them and practice more and review the material further. Google Classroom helps to promote curiosity and critical examination because it allows students to revisit things that have been used in the classroom. It promotes learning past the classroom as so many of the resources on Google Classroom can be accessed at home. The benefits of Google Slides include live editing. So if there is a change that needs to be made on the lesson, the teacher can make that change and it will appear on the student’s version as well. There is no complication of uploading the most current files. One of the challenges of using this platform is that if students do not have access to the level of technology that some schools have, many of the embedded activities would not be successful because it requires student access to technology.